МНЕ ОЧЕНЬ НУЖЕН ОТВЕТ, ДЛЯ СЕСТРЫ... Я НЕ ПОНИМАЮ Seamus Heaney
Blackberry-Picking
Late August, given heavy rain and sun
For a full week, the blackberries would ripen.
At first, just one, a glossy purple clot
Among others, red, green, hard as a knot.
You ate that first one and its flesh was sweet
Like thickened wine: summer's blood was in it
Leaving stains upon the tongue and lust for
Picking. Then red ones inked up and that hunger
Sent us out with milk cans, pea tins, jam-pots
Where briars scratched and wet grass bleached our boots.
Round hayfields, cornfields and potato-drills
We trekked and picked until the cans were full
Until the tinkling bottom had been covered
With green ones, and on top big dark blobs burned
Like a plate of eyes. Our hands were peppered
With thorn pricks, our palms sticky as Bluebeard's.
We hoarded the fresh berries in the byre.
But when the bath was filled we found a fur,
A rat-grey fungus, glutting on our cache.
The juice was stinking too. Once off the bush
The fruit fermented, the sweet flesh would turn sour.
I always felt like crying. It wasn't fair
That all the lovely canfuls smelt of rot.
Each year I hoped they'd keep, knew they would not.
Notes: lust herе: greed (more commonly, "indecent or offensive sexual feeling"); Bluebeard the French fairytale character who killed his wives; the poet means that the blackberry juice looked or felt like blood; Cache a French word meaning something that is hidden.
Task 1. What is generally wrong about the situation described in the poem? 2. Children's berry-picking is normally seen as a nice and innocuous action. Why does the author introduce the shadow of Bluebeard? How are other words like "lust" and "cache" linked to this character? 3. What tense is used by Heaney? Did you have difficulties choosing the Russian verb forms for translation? Where and how does Heaney reveal that the situation happened more than once? 4. What does the little boy mean by "It wasn't fair". Do you agree with him? Discuss the idea.
If you have a headache, heartache, toothache, backache, earache or bad pain in the stomach, if you complain of a sore throat or a bad cough, if you run a high temperature and have a bad cold in your head, or if you suffer from high or low blood pressure, I think you should consult a doctor. The doctor will examine your throat, feel your pulse, test your blood pressure, take your temperature, sound your heart and lungs, test your eyes, check your teeth or have your chest X-rayed.
After that he will prescribe some treatment, pills, tablets or some other medicine which we can buy at the chemist's. He will recommend you to stay in bed for some time, because there might be serious complications. The only thing you have to do is to follow his recommendations.
Speaking about doctors' recommendations, I can't help telling you one funny story.
An old gentleman came to see the doctor. The man was very ill. He complained of weakness, insomnia, memory loss and serious problems with his heart, lungs and liver. The doctor examined the patient and said that no medicine could cure his desease.
Do you want to know what the doctor's advice was?
He told his patient to go to a quiet place for a month and have a good rest. He also advised him to eat a lot of meat, drink two glasses of red wine every day and take long walks. In other words, the doctor recommended him to follow the rule: "Eat at pleasure, drink with measure and enjoy life as it is."
The doctor also said that if the man wanted to be well again, he shouldn't smoke more than one cigarette a day.
A month later the gentleman came into the doctor's office. He looked cheerful and happy. He thanked the doctor and said that he had never felt a healthier man.
"But you know, doctor," he said, "it's not easy to begin smoking at my age."
Перевод:
Есть ли что-нибудь важнее здоровья? Не думаю. "Здоровье - это главное богатство", мудрые люди говорят. Вы не можете хорошо учиться или работать, когда вы больны.
Если у вас головная боль, боль в сердце, зубная боль, боли в спине, боль в ухе или боли в желудке, если вы жалуетесь на боль в горле или кашель, если у вас высокая температура и сильный насморк, или если вы страдаете от высокого или низкого кровяного давления, я думаю, вы должны проконсультироваться с врачом. Доктор проверит ваше горло, ваш пульс, ваше кровяное давление, померяет температуру, послушает сердце и легкие, проверит глаза, зубы или сделает рентген.
После этого он будет предписывать лечение, таблетки, или другие лекарства, которые можно купить в аптеке. Он будет рекомендовать вам оставаться в постели в течение некоторого времени, потому что могут быть серьезные осложнения. Единственное, что вам нужно сделать, это следовать его рекомендациям.
Говоря о рекомендациях врачей, я не могу не рассказать вам одну забавнаю историю.
Старик пришел к врачу. Этот человек был очень болен. Он жаловался на слабость, бессонницу, потерю памяти и серьезные проблемы с сердцем, легкими и печенью. Врач осмотрел пациента и заявил, что ни одно лекарство не может вылечить его болезнь.
Хотите знать, какие советы врача были?
Он сказал своему пациенту поехать в тихое место на месяц и хорошо отдохнуть. Кроме того, он посоветовал, чтобы он ел много мяса, выпивал два стакана красного вина каждый день, и долго гулял. Иными словами, врач рекомендовал ему следовать правилу: "Ешьте в удовольствие, пейте в меру и наслаждайтесь жизнью."
Врач также сказал, что если человек хочет быть здоровым, он не должен курить более одной сигареты в день.
Через месяц джентльмен пришел в кабинет врача. Он выглядел веселым и счастливым. Он поблагодарил врача и сказал, что он никогда не чувствовал себя более здоровым человеком.
"Но вы знаете, доктор", - сказал он, "это не просто - начинать курить в моем возрасте ".
At the age of 16,he writes an examination called GCSE (General Certificate of Secondary Education).He usually studies from 8 to 12 GCSE subjects during the Years 10 and 11; and then chooses subjects he will have the exams in.
After Year 11, he has to decide what to do next. There are different opportunities. Some of his friends decide to go to colleges of further education, which prepare students for work, and he will go to the sixth form. Most secondary schools have sixth-form departments but there is no such department in his school. That’s why he will go to a special sixth-form college. He likes it more because at college the atmosphere is different and pupils are treated as adults. At the 6th form stage, pupils are highly specialized in three or four subjects and take A level exams. Good A level results in at least 3 subjects are necessary to get a place at a university or Art and Music College to get higher education. But not all pupils will get higher education after the sixth form. If he/she fails A level exams, he/she can go to colleges of further education or start looking for a job. But he hopes to get a place at a university.
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At the age of 16,they write an examination called GCSE (General Certificate of Secondary Education).They usually study from 8 to 12 GCSE subjects during the Years 10 and 11; and then choose subjects they will have the exams in.
After Year 11, they have to decide what to do next. There are different opportunities. Some of their friends decide to go to colleges of further education, which prepare students for work, and they will go to the sixth form. Most secondary schools have sixth-form departments but there is no such department in their school. That’s why they will go to a special sixth-form college. They like it more because at college the atmosphere is different and pupils are treated as adults. At the 6th form stage, pupils are highly specialized in three or four subjects and take A level exams. Good A level results in at least 3 subjects are necessary to get a place at a university or Art and Music College to get higher education. But not all pupils will get higher education after the sixth form. If they fail A level exams, they can go to colleges of further education or start looking for a job. But they hope to get a place at a university.